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Binding: Audio Cassette
Dewey Decimal Number: 919.04
EAN: 9780553479423
Format: Abridged, Audiobook
ISBN: 0553479423
Label: Random House Audio
Manufacturer: Random House Audio
Number Of Items: 1
Publication Date: September 15, 1997
Publisher: Random House Audio
Release Date: September 15, 1997
Studio: Random House Audio

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Accessories:

• Sony WMFX479 Walkman

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.com Review:
Michael Palin has certainly been busy since his days with Monty Python's Flying Circus. In Full Circle, Palin and a film crew go on a year-long adventure visiting 18 countries along the Pacific Rim. The film was eventually made into a 10-part PBS series, to which this book serves as a companion. Not for nothing is this part of the world called the "Ring of Fire"; volcanoes punctuate the landscape, and Palin even climbs one still smoking from a recent eruption. But the difficult landscape is only one challenge in this at times hair-raising, at times hilarious, always fascinating journey around the world's largest ocean. In the Philippines, Palin witnesses "psychic surgery": on the Urubamba River, Palin simultaneously clings for his life to a dugout canoe as he shoots the rapids and keeps up with England's progress in the World Cup via shortwave radio.

Whether he's visiting a Gulag camp in Siberia or chowing down on maggots in Mexico, Palin meets the challenges of rough travel with grace, courage, and more than a little humor. Full Circle is fun to read, includes many color photographs from Palin's adventures, and makes a terrific addition to the armchair traveler's bookshelf.

Product Description:
This is "Monty Python" alum Michael Palin's extraordinary record of his epic trip around the varied countries and landscapes of the Pacific Rim. From Cape Horn to Mexico, Seattle to Siberia, Borneo to Australia, Palin's year-long adventure is a celebration of new places and new experiences--full of all the surprises, pleasures, and lessons in life. Sure to entertain and enlighten, this audiobook ties in to the 10-part PBS broadcast of the same name. Simultaneous hardcover release from St. Martin's Press. October publication date. 4 cassettes.




Rating: - Arnold Rimmer
As always Palin has produced a great travel book and series... this I found better than his "80 Days". The other thing people might find interesting about this travel book is that it takes us to some places which are hard to reach even in this day and age, so this is the only way we can know them.

Also suggested- "Hemingway Adventure"

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Rating: - Magnificent
Full Circle is just as good, if not better then his othertravel/comedy books. It is simply magnificent.

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Rating: - An enlightning tour of the Pacific Rim countries.
Michael Palin does it again with Full Circle. Starting in Alaska Michael travels anti-clockwise around the rim of the Pacific Ocean visiting countries as diverse as Russia, Korea, Viet Nam, New Zealand, Colombia and the west coast of North American. He tells of his adventures getting to and exploring some fantastic natural wonders, visiting a Russian gulag with a former inmate, the relief of Japan, the Vietnamese reactions to a westerner, the biggness of Australia and the hardworking people ... Read More

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Rating: - What you would have seen in the Pacific
I've seen the 10-part Full Circle tv series, and I had a serious addiction from the start. When it ended, I went through a withdrawl period. I silently rocked myself in a chair in my room repeating "I must get the book,... must find book...must read book." I've got it now and I'm back on a Full Circle high. The book goes into details that they never had time for on the series. It tells you everything that you would have noticed had you been in Japan or Australia or Chile.

Ahh... I can imagine ... Read More

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Rating: - Fun, Adventure, Humor and Discovery!
Travelling with Michael is to say the least exhilarating, fun, adventurous and a journey of discovery. While many can only dream of actually making the trip, Michael Palins' books are the next best thing. It's not just where he goes, but how he does it and perhaps most importantly: seeing it through his mind's eye, which needless to say can make humor out of nothingness. All you need is to relax and have the urge to increase your imagination. A wild but educative ride!

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